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Friday, January 22, 2016

January 27th

-Lunch & Learn Workshops

13:00 - 16:00 — FTX 147

Three workshops will be
held to facilitate active, engaging, and critical dialogue on mental health and
the gaps in the current mental health campaign discourse. These workshops will
be free, drop-in, and light food will be provided. Access needs available upon
request.

Workshop #1: Disability
and Racial Justice

- Roselyne Dougé-Charles is a fourth
year student who is deeply interested in critical race theories. Disability has
often been described as a form of ethnic minority or race. This workshop will
refute this idea and explain the ways that race and disability may intersect
but are not alike.

Workshop #2: LGBTQ Youth
Mental Health

- Zac Johnstone, a third
year student and the Dare to Dream Coordinator at the Ontario Centre of
Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health, is facilitating a workshop that
will focus on building
positive mental health outcomes for LGBTQ+ youth. This workshop will aim to
provide a closer look at the many barriers LGBTQ+ youth face, and how those
barriers might be overcome through an anti-oppressive lens.

Workshop #3: Issues of
Trauma and Navigating the Legal system

- Lieutenant Colonel and
Honourable Randy Callan specializes in operational law, administrative law,and
military justice. His presentation covers trauma issues and takes a closer look
at cases of PTSD and how they are handled in the legal system, with respect to
witnesses and the accused.

-Art
Therapy

13:00
- 16:00 — UCU terminus and UCU Agora

Expressive
therapy that uses the creative process of making art to improve a persons
physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing. The process involved can help
resolve issues as well as develop and manage behaviour, feelings, and manage
stress.

Want to be able to
better recognize when you or someone you know may need psychological help and
how to get it? Come and attend this brief interactive workshop held by
Initiative 1in5 for some tips and tricks! A light snack will be provided.

January 28th

-Mental Health Action Forum

11:00 - 14:00 — UCU Agora

This
Forum gives students the opportunity to meet with key stakeholders of the
University of Ottawa - working together to provide input, assess and share
ideas and feedback around the current mental health resources on campus. In an
ongoing effort to be a proactive and responsive community, the Forum will
contribute to plans to work more collaboratively across the University of
Ottawa around mental health and wellbeing, and to further develop policies,
programs, services and informational resources at the University of Ottawa.Come
to provide your voice, input and to ask questions – either for the full forum
or for whatever time you can spare

-Let’s Talk About Bell Let’s Talk

18:00 - 20:00 — UCU Alumni Auditorium

This
free panel brings together active student leaders, organizers, and mental
health advocates who will speak to their lived experiences, including issues of
stigma on campus and in our various communities. The panel will then discuss
Bell Let's talk, which will allow for critical, open, dialogue on the successes
and drawbacks of hashtag activism and the facilitation of these types of
fundraising initiatives. PWYC donations encouraged. Access needs available upon
request.

An
introduction to the panelists:

Alex Neufeldt

- Alex
Neufeldt is a 2nd year student at the University of Ottawa studying political
science and economics. She works as a french tutor and a model. When she's not
working or studying, she loves creating fashion sketches, watching or
performing in musical theatre productions, skiing, and reading about political
theory. As an anorexia survivor, Alex is committed to raising awareness of
eating disorders, as well as advocating for improved access to treatment for
people with eating disorders

Elsa

- Elsa
is a queer brown femme who is living with depression. When she is not fighting
for life she likes to spend time making music and dancing with her friends. She
is recognized within the community for her work as a musician, promoter,
community organizer, and friend.

Christine

-
Recently graduated, Christine is a feminist, support worker, artist, and an
activist who has spent a large portion of her time advocating for her rights to
accommodations as per the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal. She identifies as
having post traumatic stress disorder and borderline personally disorder, she
is also a survivor of incest and childhood sexual abuse. Christine believes in
challenging labels and stereotypes about those with similar issues by direct
confrontation with those labels and stereotypes in public settings. Christine
is a big fan of coping through art and humour and tries to address the issues
mentioned above with those coping strategies in mind.

Dustin Garron

-Dustin is a third year Communication student here at the
University of Ottawa. Named One of Canada’s Future Leaders by Maclean’s
Magazine in 2013, Garron has been speaking on youth mental health and mental
illness for the last five years. He was appointed to the Mental Health
Commission of Canada in 2013 and was part of the National Faces of Mental
Illness Campaign in the same year. To date he has shared his story with
Depression, General Anxiety Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder with
over 20,000 students.

January 29th

-Services Fair

13:00 - 16:00 — UCU Concourse

An opportunity for students to browse
around and gain knowledge about the mental health resources offered to them in
the Ottawa community.

-Charity Gala

18:00 - 23:00 — 112 Tabaret Hall

The
Students Against Stigma Gala will be a charity event where all proceeds raised will
go towards Wabano, YSB, and sponsoring students who wish to partake in courses
like ASIST training and SafeTalk, which are normally expensive on a student
budget.